# America opens the Borders. Then what?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 18, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-opens-the-borders-then-what/840431 "2019-09-18T12:29:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-opens-the-borders-then-what/840431/61 "2019-09-22T05:03:30Z")

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> [@begbert2](#):
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> _Eliminate_ it? I can think of no better way eradicate the lower middle class. And the upper lower class. It would cause the market to settle at the price that the least demanding people will pay, for any and every unskilled and low-skilled position. Those people, for the most part, won’t be white.
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> And seriously, you can’t combat unemployment that way - it won’t cause _that_ many more jobs to open up, since no matter how cheap it to hire them is you don’t need fifty servants/slaves unless you run a farm/plantation. Which means that you won’t reduce unemployment; you’ll just change who’s hired, and whether they can afford housing.

You realize that with global trade that already happens?

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